Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Visiting Penn Dixie in Hamburg, NY

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My son LOVES collecting rocks and finding fossils. Penn Dixie was a former cement quarry in where visitors can collect and keep Devonian Period fossils including trilobites.

They provide you with a sample fossil sheet. You can bring your own digging equipment. I suggest a bucket, shovel and perhaps gardening rakes.

This place brings together beginning rock hounds and experienced paleontologists alike.

Some of the great fossils you could be lucky enough to find:

Brachiopods – symmetrically shelled filter feeders

Bryozoans – moss animals

Cephalopods – predatory marine molluscs

Corals – colonial and solitary filter feeders

Crinoids – sea lilies

Crustaceans – arthropods such as lobsters and crabs

Gastropods – snails

Ostrocods – tiny crustaceans

Other echinoderms – related to sea stars

Pelecypods – clams Trilobites – extinct marine arthropods

Conodonts – extinct eel-like vertebrates

Fish – primitive

Paleozoic fish

Petrified wood – extinct plants from the

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